Bid Manager

Job description

Ready to take the next step in your Bid Management career?

Join our Strategic Sales team and play a leading role in shaping and delivering some of Sopra Steria's most important and high-profile opportunities. Working across the public and private sectors, you'll collaborate with senior stakeholders, influence strategic pursuits, and help secure business that makes a real difference to our customers and communities. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy turning complex challenges into winning solutions, we'd love to hear from you.

This role is hybrid, with weekly travel to our London office (average 3 days per week).

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and manage end-to-end bid activities across multiple opportunities.
• Coordinate diverse teams to deliver high-quality, compliant, and compelling bid submissions.
• Drive bid governance, planning, and execution to meet challenging deadlines.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Sopra Steria, partner organisations, and suppliers.
• Support the development of winning strategies and customer-focused solutions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of bid excellence and best practice.

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrable Bid Management experience, working across all stages of the entire bid process with a successful record of accomplishment, winning bids in a competitive market.
• Highly competent in use of MS Office tools.
• Experienced user of project planning software e.g. MS Project.
• Demonstrate a sales orientation with an understanding of bid management best practice.

It would be great if you had:

• Member of Bid Management professional body e.g. Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP).
• Experience of Shipley bid management best practice.
• Knowledge of the Public and Private Sector market.

If you're interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time/Permanent
Location: London 3 days per week
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Amy
Salary: Up to £70k
Benefits: 10% bonus, £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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Our business is, first and foremost, about people. And it always has been. The solutions we develop are driven by the connections they make and the problems they solve. Our services only matter if they work for people and if they serve a greater purpose. Known for our collaborative approach, we provide consulting and digital services, creating innovative solutions, at scale, to deliver sustainable growth and services that make life better.

Our work touches many lives in the UK. From helping the Government provide essential public and health services that offer more convenience and choice, to improving financial services to deliver fairer, customer-centric solutions.

Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value.

We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and join us!

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.